Kitchen-cabinet



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P. SCHNEIDER.

KITCHEN CABINET.

Patented May 18, 1897.

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PHILLIP SCHNEIDER, OF GARNIER, IOVA.

KITCHEN-CABINET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 582,697', dated May 18, 1897.

Application led January 18, 1897. Serial' No. 619,622. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILLIP SCHNEIDER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Garner, in the county of Hancock and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Kitchen-Cabinet, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of kitchen-cabinets designed to contain a number of articles used in making food-stuffs and to provide means whereby dough, &c., may be conveniently and easily compounded and kneaded and to provide a means whereby leavened food-stuffs may be subjected to the proper conditions necessary for it to rise.

The object is, primarily, to provide simple, cheap, and convenient means whereby flour may be easily and quickly placed in a recep tacle within the cabinet, where it may be conveniently used and ready access be had to said receptacle or hopper either when full or empty, and, further, to provide means whereby iiour may be easily and quickly taken from the hopper and passed through a sieve to the mixing-board.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement, and combination of the hopper and the means for operating same with the sieve and the other parts of the device, as hereinafter set forth, pointed ont in my claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 shows a vertical central section of the complete cabinet. Fig. 2 shows a detail perspective of the movable hopper. Fig.. 3 shows a front view of the complete cabinet with the cabinet-doors open.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, the reference-letter A is used to indicate the exterior of the cabinet, and A2 and A3 two horizontal partitions to divide the cabinet into three compartments. The fronts of the upper and lower compartments are covered by doors B, hinged at their outer sides, and B2indicates a combined door and table hinged at its lower edge to the central partition to swing outwardly to a horizontal position, where it is supported by chains BS, and may be used as a table on which dough may be compounded and kneaded.

In the lower compartment is a hinged shelf C, supported at its outer end by chains C2.

On the interior of the cabinet and resting upon its bottom I have provided a sheetmetal casing into which a lamp may be placed to furnish heat on the interior of the cabinet to aid in raising the breadstuffs within the cabinet.

In the upper compartment I have provided two drawers D D at the opposite sides thereof, and between these drawers is a sliding platform D2, hinged at its central portion, so that when the platform is drawn out its outer portion may fold down. The sides of the platform are tongued at D3 to enter grooves D4 in the strips D5, which are secured to the upper partition to hold said platform in place.

DG indicates a spring-catch on one of the strips D5 to enter a notch in the rear section of the platform, and thus prevent the platform from sliding out too far.

F indicates a hopper designed to contain flour and having its sides and back inclined inwardly toward the base, so that it may rest on the front half of the platform.

F2 indicates the top of the hopper, of which the rear section is hinged at its rear end to swing rearwardly.

F3 indicates a slide-valve in the bottom of the hopper to cover an openingin the bottom and in the platform.

A chain F4 is attached to the rear upper cornersof the hopper and to the back of the compartment to limit the movement of the hopper when it swings outwardly.

J indicates a brace secured to-the'platform to engage the rear face of the hopper and prevent it from falling rearwardly.

K indicates a collar secured to the under side of the upper. partition A2 to coincide with an opening therein, and K2 indicates a sieve detachably secured to the collar.

Vhen the hopper is in place and the sieve in its bottom opened, the flour fromthe hopper may freely pass to the sieve.

It is obvious that when the hopper is drawn out access may readily be had to all part-s thereof `either for cleaning or filling it and that when in position in the machine any desired quantity of flour may be taken from the hopper and passed through the sifter to the mixing board or table.

Having thus described my invention, what I clailn as new therein, and desire to secure by IOO Letters Patent of the United States therefor,

1. ln a kitchen-Cabinet the combination with a frame, a partition near its top, a floursieve under an opening in the pz'trtition, a slide on top of the partit-ion hinged at its eentral portion, a stop for limiting the outward movement of the slide, a hopper on the slide, a valve in the hopper, and chains for limiting the movement of the hopper for the purposes stated.

2. A kitchen-Cabinet comprising a easing, two horizontal partitions therein, a heater in the lower compartment, a hinged front to the middle Compartment to serve as a mixing- 

